Faberge inspired butterfly

Hi everyone! Hope your weekend was good. It's my day on the Katzelkraft blog today and I've made a wall hanging inspired by Faberge which I'm entering into the challenges of 'twine' and the colour challenge of 'red and gold' at Gingersnap Creations (that's if I'm allowed to enter both with one piece, not sure), hope you'll pop over there as they have some lovely challenges, gorgeous art and techniques etc. 

I've used  the lovely 'Physalis et Petits Oiseaux' plate which is a versatile set and great for making backgrounds. My butterfly is a piece of chipboard cut on my die cutting machine, then covered with white stamping card and it's about eight inches wide. I stamped the flower and embossed with gold powder then sponged with fired brick and wild honey distress ink to fit in with the colour theme. There's twine to hang the butterfly from and also for the antennae to fit the twine challenge at Gingersnaps. To try and get the Faberge jewelled look  I added some die cut swirls sprayed with gold cosmic shimmer spray, a prima enamel style flower, gems large and small and lots of pearl pen dots. 

The stamps are available at Katzelkraft Stamps in France and in the UK at the Craft Barn.

Enjoy your day!

Canvas

 Hi everyone, hope you're enjoying the weekend. I'm just scraping in on some challenges with this canvas which is for Linda's Compendium of Curiosities challenge where this week the challenge is distressed collage fragments. I haven't managed to enter for the last few weeks and wanted to this time as it's coming to the end of the book! At Gingersnap Creations there's a colour challenge of jewel colours plus gold and at Simon Says Stamp and show the theme is to show your ephemera which I've already entered this week but hoping I'm allowed more than one :D!

To get the vivid jewel colours I used Brusho powder paint and I've used stamps from the gorgeous Katzelkraft set Oiseau Musique to make the collage as per Tim Holtz's Compendium book. For  the gold elements I used a krylon gold leafing pen and some gold sequin waste. Vintage paper, punched and stamped butterflies say ephemera to me so hopefully that's OK for Simon Says Stamp and Show.

Katzelkraft stamps are available in France at Katzelkraft Stamps and in the UK here at the Craft Barn.

Enjoy your Sunday!